Diablo 2 is already a game you could lose thousands of hours to, but what if you could truly lose yourself in the world via VR? Well, a modder found a way to translate the isometric ARPG to a first-person VR game.
Reddit user fantasticauthor2736 created the mod, using an existing 3D conversion mod, FlatVR and BodyWalk. While the mod itself hasn't been published quite yet, there are a few videos of it in action, and while it doesn't look like a fully polished VR game yet, it does seem like a cool way to play the game.
All of the videos posted so far, though, have been in the first couple zones of Diablo 2, and while they haven't shown any particularly intense combat so far, it's easy to see how it works in theory. You just point your motion controller at an enemy and shoot fireballs at them. Easy enough.
The modder was also able to redesign the UI a bit, too. They moved the inventory to the belt, but the rest of the UI has been moved to the left wrist, where you can see health, mana and the toolbar. And, if you want to pull up the map, it looks like you just summon it as an orb that you hold in your hand. That's less ideal than the overlay map in the standard game, but I can imagine that'd make it hard to actually play in VR.
On the surface, it's hard to imagine how this even works, but it builds on the mod D2R-3D by emmericp , which just gives Diablo 2 some more robust camera controls.
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